It's a beautiful day, Inaguration Day 2009 Options

[Rick]

Prime Minister Brown?

[Hey Hey]

spice girls, david beckum, pink floyd, the wall, faulty towers, coronation street, led zeppelin, oasis, cold play, arthur brown.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOErZuzZpS8, the queen, queen, boy george, george michael, the clash, red dwarf....

spice girls - shit for brains
david beckum - football, saviour of humankind (another shit for brains)
pink floyd - one or two nice tunes
the wall - never heard of, unless you mean the PF song - worst one they did
faulty towers - brilliant, almost as good as MASH
coronation street - not what it was and it was only ever pap
led zeppelin - yerrr!
oasis - came and went. foul-mouthed troublemakers.
cold play - came and went. where did he get that voice? well, i say voice ..
arthur brown - crazy world of? 1/2 hit wonder
the queen - parasite
queen - now your talking. guy died of depravity
boy george - guy lives with depravity
george michael - guy IS depravity
the clash - ever heard them live? prefer to eat shit
red dwarf - mind blowing intellectual stuff. now he's in coronation street and not a bad actor.

Let me tell you, anyone that says the UK is a good place to live doesn't live here.

... Worst food in the world, no public toilets so everyone pisses on the highways (there used to be toilets but no-one used them cos they stank so bad), weekend evening city centre drunken brawls, spew and piss, worst customer service in the world, biggest and most holes in the roads in the developed world, smallest parking spaces in the world, more surveillance cameras than anywhere else in the world, worst coffee in the world, 2nd only to US in overweight diabetic residents, underclass (but still high %) of illiterates, highest teenage pregnancy rate in the EU, Prime Minister raised to power without the consent of the people, Scottish and Welsh devolution to break free from England, illegally invaded Iraq based on lies by the ruling politicians ....

... but we did have the Beatles - 40 YEARS AGO!!!! Wey Hey!!!!

[Hey Hey]

The British masses are possibly the most complacent in the world. They are too busy drinking, watching DVDs and texting to care about the freedoms they are losing and where their taxes (~ highest in the developed world) are going. I reckon that they have such a high proportion of unintelligent and poorly educated people that at the next election, the Labour Party will be re-elected, even though they have shafted the people in front of their very eyes. Do something Britain, get off your ass and get some work done!

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spice girls - shit for brains

....agreed

pink floyd - one or two nice tunes

.... are you on crack? That band had well more than one or two nice tunes!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_bvT-DGcWw...player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkJNyQfAprY...player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntm1YfehK7U...player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyqgjCKm9nQ...player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb-Nacm-pKc

the wall - never heard of, unless you mean the PF song - worst one they did

.... I meant the movie, however the pf song also was the bomb "How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?"

faulty towers - brilliant, almost as good as MASH

....I liked it but prefer Monty Python

coronation street - not what it was and it was only ever pap

I only ever watched this, by force, when I visited my grand mother (who turns 90 on Saturday).... she loved that show!

led zeppelin - yerrr!

.... hell yeah!

arthur brown - crazy world of? 1/2 hit wonder

... yes, crazy world of! And he had a few good licks on that album

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5hs3IDETcg...player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUQBUaamWrs...player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h27ytICGK8...player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ9NaHAmzvs...player_embedded
http://crazymotion.net/-child-of-my-kingdo...jYMzhlIjAy.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QrwT1vbniY...player_embedded

the queen - parasite

.... but, she is so sexy.... gilf, lol!

queen - now your talking. guy died of depravity

.... freddie mercury's voice is incomparable

the clash - ever heard them live? prefer to eat shit

.... lol, I bet!

red dwarf - mind blowing intellectual stuff.

.... couldn't have put it better myself!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRbthINbQg0...player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tGO79BtWUI

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... Worst food in the world, no public toilets so everyone pisses on the highways (there used to be toilets but no-one used them cos they stank so bad), weekend evening city centre drunken brawls, spew and piss, worst customer service in the world, biggest and most holes in the roads in the developed world, smallest parking spaces in the world, more surveillance cameras than anywhere else in the world, worst coffee in the world, 2nd only to US in overweight diabetic residents, underclass (but still high %) of illiterates, highest teenage pregnancy rate in the EU, Prime Minister raised to power without the consent of the people, Scottish and Welsh devolution to break free from England, illegally invaded Iraq based on lies by the ruling politicians ....

... but we did have the Beatles - 40 YEARS AGO!!!! Wey Hey!!!!

Party pooper!!! I love England. I've been there and I really liked it. But, like New York, I guess one thing is visiting and another one living there. Thanks for busting my bubble anyway! And please add to your list the following:
Isaac Newton
Charles Darwing
Oscar Wilde
Sting and
The Rolling Stones

[Rick]

Stones, Kinks, Moody Blues, Rod Stewart, Jeff Beck, The Who, Cream. England in August is very fine.

[Hey Hey]

Just a reminder, this is 2009, not 1969!

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Britain

Baked beans
An essential part of the fried breakfast, baked beans are very much a national favourite, so much so that supermarkets are often willing to sell them at a loss just to get customers in to their stores. They know that we cannot resist a can of beans for 7p, even if we know they are the ones scraped from the remains of truckers’ breakfasts at transport cafés on the M6

Readers' wives
It may go against one of the Ten Commandments, but British men love nothing more than to covet another man’s wife, especially on a Saturday morning when their own wife has gone out shopping. Ideally the wife in question should be inexpertly photographed on a patterned draylon sofa, in a room where the chintzy curtains are firmly drawn shut. It is preferable that flash photography be used, as this brings out a special shade of whiteness on areas rarely exposed to the sun. There has been increased inclusion of a wider variety of interior design styles, so that men that hanker after seeing a slightly overweight Norfolk florist next to some half-constructed Ikea shelving are well catered for.

Innit
This useful piece of punctuation can be used to end any sentence in Britain, providing a simple reaffirmation of the facts therein (It is well hot, innit?) or adding emphasis to the need for confirmation of a fact from a companion (Are you going to the cinema, innit?). The genius of the word is that it can be retrospectively applied to classic literature or speeches and still make sense. So, Shakespeare may ask ‘To be, or not to be, innit?’.

Tea
Nothing is more British than a cup of tea. Not even Stephen Fry wrapped in a union flag, riding Reverend Ian Paisley over Ben Nevis whilst eating roast beef with All The Trimmings and flagellating the shouty Ulsterman with a leek. Originally discovered by chimps wearing human clothes, tea is said to date back as far as 4,000 years. It took until it was imported into Britain in 1660 (when King Charles II was first to utter the words ‘stick the kettle on, love’) for anyone to start drinking it properly, though. Singer Boy George spoke for a nation when he said he would prefer a cuppa to sex.

Apologising
We are the only nation that offers an apology when someone stands on our toes, barges in front of us in a queue or when we have to send back food in a restaurant. This character trait has lead to us slipping behind in the field of commerce and innovation in recent years, with inventors often not wanting to seem boastful by telling all and sundry about their cure for cancer or knowing how to start their pitch for investment in their product that will cure world hunger without saying ‘I’m really sorry, but …’.

Irn Bru
Curing Scottish hangovers from primary school to nursing home, Irn Bru is the sticky-sweet beverage that claims to be made in Scotland from girders but is actually manufactured by wringing out wasps that have settled in cans of Tizer. If you spot a Scotsman searching through the bins in your town centre it is highly likely that they are one of Irn Bru’s highly skilled ‘harvesters’, whose job it is to track down the Tizery wasps.

Nelson
Admiral Lord Nelson, Horatio to his friends, is one of the most celebrated Britons largely due to his efforts in the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar, which lead to a victory over the Spanish and French fleets, as well as his own untimely demise. His last words are often misquoted as being ‘kiss me Hardy’, but this was said sometime before he died from a bullet wound. His last actual recorded words were: ‘Drink, drink. Fan, fan. Rub, rub’. Many British men repeat these words as a tribute to the great naval hero whenever they visit a lap-dancing club or massage parlour.

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The British Top 20

The Bad Stuff:

1. The Spice Girls
2. Colonialism
3. Mad Cow disease
4. David Beckham
5. America
6. George Galloway
7. Colonialism
8. Tony Blair
9. J.K. Rowling
10. Colonialism

The Good Stuff:

1. Ali G
2. The English Premiere League (as in football, not “soccer�)
3. Dido
4. Colonialism
5. The Beatles
6. America
7. Princess Diana
8. Mr. Bean
9. America
10. The English language

[Rick]

Just a reminder, this is 2009, not 1969!

Then let's bring back the sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll.

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.... blackadder.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmqbO-lY0LM...player_embedded, abolition of slavery, rule of law, equality before the law, free speech, harry potter, reality tv, shakespeare, jane eyre, the bronte sisters, charles dickens, doctor who.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF2x5IKxmAQ...player_embedded, the bbc....

.... aston martins, churchill, david beckham's right foot... manchester united, james clark maxwell, without him you could not use the internet, fish n chips, ryan giggs' left foot, some of the best tv in the world, rolls royce, proper beer, altoids....

.... democracy, religious tolerance, administration, education, keats, alexander grahame bell, industrial revolution, florence nightingale....

.... newton, stirling moss, kate moss, james bond, 007, mini cooper, mcLaren, cosworth, steven hawkins, chadwick, russell, peter o'toole, sean connery, rod stewart, maggie thatcher, my friend Bernard, jaguar, silverstone, the first usable jet engine, cambridge and oxford, and stonehenge....

.... supertramp.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MltrnVOG2s...player_embedded, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHbPD_bXaOA...player_embedded, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1auRCameVY...player_embedded, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQjnz89sQaU...player_embedded, hp sauce, football hooligans, unmarried mothers, binge drinking, london, good manners, patience, queuing, a small country that at one time ruled 3/4's of the world, cucumber sandwiches, rugby, cricket, australians, imperialism, capitalism, the creation of israel, slumdog millionaire, sir tim berners lee, porridge, middle eastern oil, kaiser chiefs, franz ferdinand.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcAxKmj1i3w, snow patrol, charles babbidge, michael farraday, robin hood, king arthur, sir lancelot, merlin the magician, simon fuller, national geographic, new zealand, sending pilgrims to America and helping them in building a new country, sending convicts to Australia, ruling Canada and helping them to stand on their own two feet as a nation separate from the us of a....

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Lawrence Oliver
Michael Cain
Right there you have the two most gifted actors, probably ever!

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I've just read all the posts on this topic and thoroughly enjoyed them - thanks a lot everyone!!

For those who were able to attend the inauguration (or know someone who did attend) you can zoom into many, many faces at this website (if you have time) and see yourself or friend....

http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.p...6648c2b4b06233c

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I've just read all the posts on this topic and thoroughly enjoyed them - thanks a lot everyone!!

Beautiful Thread with a beautiful title about a beautiful day in history; with beautiful follow-up posts. Move thread to "Best of BrainMeta"?

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Obama announces end date for Iraqi military ops

http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/abc/home/...ama_iraq_090227

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Yes - close to the edge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnQ70LIPqos...player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49IH0kl-Nxo...player_embedded

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Jethro Tull

living in the past.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsCyC1dZiN8...player_embedded

thick as a brick.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toHlMD50eYY...player_embedded

Aqualung.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqZmtq5LhFo...player_embedded

ian anderson's flute solo.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRo5whIbau4...player_embedded

fat man.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLRNq1uhpAc...player_embedded

[Hey Hey]

Prime Minister Brown?

Exactly! Without living in the UK how can anyone know what it's like? And it's no good harping on the past, as we (in the UK) have to live in the present Labour Party disaster period.

Many of the personalities, pop groups, film stars mentioned - when were their last good contributions, and when did you last buy something of theirs? It's a bit like the US's Bob Dylan; he's made records from the 60's to the present, but most people last bought a disc in the 70s.

By the way Mr ex-RBS CEO, don't take that £700K pension as it's not good form, what, what. How did you like our PM's firm words on that matter?! The country's leader, NHS, local councils, education system, postal service (spit) and most of the rest are in the same condition as the roads - full of holes (and in Yorkshire, full of shit as well). I apologise if those words of reality upset anyone, Thank you very much, thank you. (By the way, I don't mean those last two sentences, just as the British don't mean them when they say them. They just come out in the embarrassing gaps between conversation. Derrr, eh, cor blimey, innit!) I'm off for a cup of tea ...

[Hey Hey]

The British Top 20

The Bad Stuff:

1. The Spice Girls
2. Colonialism
3. Mad Cow disease
4. David Beckham
5. America
6. George Galloway
7. Colonialism
8. Tony Blair
9. J.K. Rowling
10. Colonialism

The Good Stuff:

1. Ali G
2. The English Premiere League (as in football, not “soccer�)
3. Dido
4. Colonialism
5. The Beatles
6. America
7. Princess Diana
8. Mr. Bean
9. America
10. The English language

In reference to Princess Diana, could I ask why you think that she was something 'good' wrt to Britain? I just read this quote from an article making a contrast of Diana with Jade Goody. The statement below says it all for me - that, present company excepted, many people fall for a sucker!

Discussions of Jade Goody in the same breath as Princess Diana seem strange. These two women are not only from different sides of the track, they’re from opposite poles of the social universe. Goody is the gobby self-promoter from a broken home in rundown Bermondsey; Diana was a privileged socialite self-promoter from Althorp. Aside from both having blonde hair and lower-than-average IQ levels, there seems little to link the queen of reality TV with the self-styled queen of people’s hearts.

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The British masses are possibly the most complacent in the world. They are too busy drinking, watching DVDs and texting to care about the freedoms they are losing and where their taxes (~ highest in the developed world) are going. I reckon that they have such a high proportion of unintelligent and poorly educated people that at the next election, the Labour Party will be re-elected, even though they have shafted the people in front of their very eyes. Do something Britain, get off your ass and get some work done!

Here's an example of what I mean about complacency, (but maybe things are changing?):

British 'careless' with liberties

British people have been "careless" with their civil liberties, but that is beginning to change, former shadow home affairs minister David Davis has said.

Speaking at the Convention on Modern Liberty on Saturday, Mr Davis said people were growing increasingly angry at government intrusion in their lives.

More than 1,000 people joined the event in London and at venues across the UK.

Other speakers included former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg and Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti.

Gatherings were also be held in Belfast, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Glasgow and Manchester to debate issues such as the "database state", counter-terrorism laws and press freedom.

'Being alienated'

Mr Davis, who resigned from the Conservative front bench last year to fight a by-election on the issue of civil liberties, said the British public had been "casual" with their freedom and privacy in the past.

"They treat it carelessly, like a very old suit that they have had a very long time, [but] times are changing.
"Something is happening in the hearts and minds of our country."

Mr Davis said policies like ID cards and detention without trial for terror suspects were initially popular with the electorate, but were now drawing widespread opposition.

Others speaking at the convention agreed with him. Human rights lawyer and life peer Helena Kennedy QC, said communities were "being alienated" by the increased use of anti-terror laws beyond their original remit.
"There is a general feeling that in creating a climate of fear people have been writing a blank cheque to government," she said.

"People feel the fear of terrorism is being used to take away a lot of rights."

She added that people were "fearful of the general business of collecting too much information about individuals".

Also speaking to the London event was Mr Begg. He was asked about fellow detainee Binyam Mohamed, who was released from Guantanamo and returned to Britain this week.

Mr Mohamed claims he was tortured while in US custody - and with UK knowledge - and Mr Begg said he was "eager to pursue justice" for his alleged treatment.

"He does not want to talk about the torture, which I understand because it was much worse for him than it was for the rest of us," he said.

"But there is clearly a feeling in his mind that he has a duty to speak out for those that remain behind but also to expose the secret detention process."

Mr Begg said it was "time to look right in our back yard" at Britain's role in the alleged mistreatment of terror suspects.

'Finite limits'

Shadow justice secretary Dominic Grieve also spoke to the London audience, arguing that the government's desire to control risk in society was "destroying our quality of life".

"We have to accept that society and life carries risk and whilst it is the duty of the state to do its best to moderate and prevent what is wrong, nevertheless there are finite limits," he said.

"We, as citizens, have to make this clear to government, we are prepared consciously as adults to accept some element of risk in order to be free."

The government's plans to extend the period terrorist suspects can be held before being charged led to a large Labour rebellion last year - and prompted Mr Davis's resignation.

They were later shelved following a heavy defeat in the House of Lords.

Last week the Liberal Democrats unveiled their "Freedom Bill" and pledged a review of the use of CCTV cameras, the abolition of ID cards and control orders for terrorism suspects.

And earlier this month the Lords constitution committee warned that electronic surveillance and collection of personal data were "pervasive" in British society and threatened to undermine democracy.

Last year Gordon Brown defended the use of CCTV, ID cards and the DNA database in a speech on civil liberties - saying they helped ensure people's right to live free from crime.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7915479.stm

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.... something to help us non british folk here at BM understand hey hey

http://www.effingpot.com/slang.shtml

[Hey Hey]

.... something to help we British here on BM understand why we stayed in Britain:

http://www.slanguage.com/canadian.html

[Rick]

.... something to help us non british folk here at BM understand hey hey

http://www.effingpot.com/slang.shtml

That's very useful. It's all becoming clear now...

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.... something to help we British here on BM understand why we stayed in Britain:

http://www.slanguage.com/canadian.html

with oat a doat, eh.... lol

[Hey Hey]

.... something to help we British here on BM understand why we stayed in Britain:

http://www.slanguage.com/canadian.html

with oat a doat, eh.... lol

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wow this is going to be an embarrassing thread

[Rick]

wow this is going to be an embarrassing thread

For whom?

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wow this is going to be an embarrassing thread

.... how so?

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Tone is being sarcastic, I think, judging by his gloomy view of the economy. I dare to disagree with him as, barring an unforseen event of catastrophic proportions (such as mile wide asteroind hitting earth, or a nuclear bomb detonation in NY city), we will recover from this bottom of the economic cycle just as we have from others in the past; incluiding the great depression of the 30s.

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...(such as mile wide asteroind hitting earth)...

Speaking of which!!!

2009 DD45 is a small Apollo asteroid[1] that passed near Earth at an altitude of 63,500 km (39,457 miles) on 2 March 2009
Hey, this means we almost became extinct 4 freaking days ago and the media didn't even know about this? What tha!!!! I demand an explanation!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_DD45

Ok, here's more news I just found out about it. I'm flabergasted right now as I search the internet for information about this and I barely run into any!!!!

Asteroid 2009 DD45 on Monday passed within 38,000 miles of Earth, less than twice the height of the geostationary satellites we depend on for communications, according to Robert McNaught of the Australian National University.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/03/03...ref=mpstoryview